Downtown court complex an economic stimulus Aug 26, 2008
has been sending bike messengers, delivery people and title searchers to the county courthouse for 19 years, said Bob DiBenedetto, the company s owner ... Last year, for example, Archive contracted with seven bike messengers to ferry legal documents from the city s law firms to the courthouse. (Columbus Business First, OH)
Q Cos. relocates, will add jobs Aug 16, 2008
The unit provides courier services, including bike messengers. The Charlotte-based company also has launched two new sister businesses. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
Opinion: Confessions of a new bike commuter Aug 7, 2008
They tend to weave more than I do maybe it is the rhythm of the music or conversation, but they are less predictable than whizzing bike messengers. The world of iPoders is so remote that all communication is equally ignored. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Competition, traffic fierce for city's bike messengers Aug 5, 2008
Atlanta's bike messengers count about 10 of their kind on the roads ... An independent bike messengers doesn't have health insurance through the delivery company. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Not just anyone can be a bike courier Aug 5, 2008
Competition, traffic fierce for city's bike messengers Not just anybody can do the work ... Atlanta's bike messengers count about 10 of their kind on the roads ... An independent bike messengers doesn't have health insurance through the delivery company. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Sustainability creates new fields in current industries Aug 5, 2008
Green-collar jobs range from bike messengers to solar plant engineers. As old technologies give way to new ideas, many of those skills could be trans-ferable. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Rob Walker's 'Buying In' Jul 26, 2008
But in 2002, Pabst noticed a sudden sales spike, driven by an unlikely demographic: countercultural types - bike messengers, skaters and their tattooed kin - in hipster redoubts like Portland, Ore. had taken to swilling the stuff. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
WOMEN A GO-GO Jun 27, 2008
They are schoolteachers, Web designers, bike messengers and executives - who all love to dance. "The Devil-Ettes have always been different shapes, sizes and colors," Baby Doe says of the girls who'll all be looking for a prom date tonight at the Rickshaw, where the punch will undoubtedly be spiked. (San Francisco Chronicle)
New York City Jun 17, 2008
The Great Harlem Bike Messengers Race - TIME ... The Great Harlem Bike Messengers Race ... Bike messenger Dwain Walters, 21, competes in a relay race for bike messengers at this years Harlem Rocks 35th Annual Skyscraper Cycling Classic in Marcus Garvey Park. (Time.com)
Singin The Blues Jun 8, 2008
June 8, 2008 -- THE CABBIES drive like suicidal maniacs and the bike messengers seem to have a genuine death wish. Subway announcements are impossible to hear; city buses never arrive, and when they do, they come three at a time. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Record numbers of bicyclists on the roads Jun 2, 2008
For bicycling enthusiasts - once a subculture of bike messengers, car haters, cash-poor students, and eco-activists - it's beginning to feel like a tipping point. "People are coming back to the cycle in a big way," said Shane Jordan of the nonprofit Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition. (Boston Globe)
Rate of bicycle commuting speeds ahead in New York City May 11, 2008
Middle-age bicycle commuters like Amy Cohen and Gary Eckstein are more plentiful on the streets than daredevil bike messengers, once the dominant image of New York cyclists. Every morning, Cohen, 42, and her husband, Eckstein, 45, walk their children, Tamar, 9, and Samuel, 7, to school in Brooklyn before commuting by bicycle to Lower Manhattan - a 35-minute ride to work for each of them. (Boston Globe)
What the Heck? Classic beer Mar 31, 2008
Somehow it took Pabst Blue Ribbon from a 126-year-old, moribund brand for retired Midwestern factory workers and turned it into the beer of choice for bike messengers, snowboarders and indie bands. "Wish we'd done that on purpose," says Wortham. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Late night ride Mar 4, 2008
Formed to hone the skills of bike messengers in cities such as Chicago and New York, Alley Cat Races are now done by messengers and bike enthusiasts alike as a way to form camaraderie, build the cycling community and share some beer at the end of a race. In Logan, the riders have taken their own twist on Alley Cat Races, calling them Polar Cat Races for the winter because of the below-freezing temperatures they face four months out of the year and allowing participants to ride on non-fixed-gear... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Changing gears Nov 6, 2007
"There's more of a connection to your bike and to the ground. I like that aspect of it."The hip factor of urban bike messengers, who deliver packages and letters in big cities, is another lure. For them, a fixed-gear bike is a necessity because they often have their hands full and stopping can be accomplished with only the legs (if they're strong enough). (Fresno Bee)
For Shanker, education was a labor union of love Sep 27, 2007
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Albert Shanker organized his first labor strike in 1945 at age 17, when he rallied his fellow New York City bike messengers for a $1-a-week raise. Over the next 50 years, Shanker's name became synonymous with unions, first as president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, then of the American Federation of Teachers. (USA Today -- News)
Berlin's Bicycle Boom Aug 23, 2007
Im road-savvy but not die-hard skilled like the bike messengers who fearlessly dodge delivery trucks and who know where to find the few-and-far-between bike lanes ... Utility Cycling In the United States, using a bike for transportation (or utility cycling) is largely an outsider activity brought to popularity in urban areas by activist groups, sometimes organized by enthusiast bike messengers. (CBS News)
America's Hypocritical Impulse To Spread Freedom And Democracy Aug 22, 2007
What bike messengers can tell us about the world: the merits of Freakonomics web only. An illustrated take on the Freakonomics phenomenon. (New Republic)
Bike Messengers Rally For Peer Killed In Collision Aug 18, 2007
Dozens of bike messengers rode to the accident scene Friday night ... On Monday many bike messengers are expected to donate a day's pay to a memorial fund ... Bike messengers gathered Friday at the scene of Monday's accident. (CBS2Chicago.com, IL)
The Flying Scotsman Aug 11, 2007
They meet as bike messengers in Glasgow in 1993 and Malky takes over from Graeme's wife, Anne (Laura Fraser), as manager of his cycling career. Malky is fictional, an amalgam of various people who played a part in Obree's rise. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Former Timbuk2 CEO's next career move in the bag Aug 8, 2007
Dwight, who took some time off while waiting for his one-year non-compete agreement to expire, said he's looking forward to creating fashionable bags popular with bike messengers and others. "Bags are the most functional fashion accessory," Dwight said. (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
Dublin Exiles `Reckless' Bike Messenger Competition to City's Bucolic Edge Aug 4, 2007
While White gets a thrill out of his work, the prospect of an invasion of bike messengers sends chills up drivers' spines in the Irish capital. White says that's one reason the 15th annual Cycle Messenger World Championships this weekend has been exiled to Phoenix Park on the northwest edge of the city. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Bike messengers react to new helmet law Jul 27, 2007
"It cost us some money, but we are complying," said Oz Belton, manager of Quik Trak Messenger Service, which deploys up to 30 bike messengers daily. "Some of the veterans would rather not wear a helmet, but they will do it to avoid the ticket.". (Newsday -- New York City)
More of this story Jul 20, 2007
Start at the Echo Park Lake and head toward Downtown on Glendale Boulevard, like the bike messengers. Glendale becomes Second Street, so go through the Second Street tunnel and turn right on Broadway. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Bicycle polo: Go slowly, but carry big stick Jul 15, 2007
Which is why the bike messengers, who spend their days playing chicken with Boston traffic, excel at the sport. "When you ride downtown all day, you develop a set of skills that are very useful in this game," says Tyler Sage , a 21-year-old student at the Art Institute of Boston and part-time bike messenger who is the de facto organizer of many of the bike polo games. (Boston Globe -- Local)
Getting Ready For Rumbles Jul 10, 2007
" Mendiola and Santiago are two young cops; they've been with the department about three years. They went to the academy together, so they know each other well. They work the overnight shift, 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. That's a tough enough shift for anyone doing any kind of work. But it's a whole other world to be a cop on Saturday night in the Mission. The area has high-end restaurants and froufrou bars next to burrito joints and crusty taverns. Latino gang members cruise the streets, while... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Car Doors and Bicycles Jun 14, 2007
This is what bike messengers wryly call getting the "door prize". In the City of Toronto, this particular type of collision has been named as the leading cause of injury to cyclists. (Suite101.com)
Rising gas prices outrage some Apr 21, 2007
His fleet of bike messengers are, for obvious reasons, not contributing to his fuel costs. But Deadline Express also offers service to the suburbs. (Chicago Tribune)
Hotel Utah Saloon Mar 16, 2007
" The bands that play the Hotel Utah invariably tell Samuel they love two things: the sound quality and "being able to look up girls' skirts in the balcony. " FYI to Culver City Dub Collective: That could very well include guys' skirts too. Some come to the Utah for the food. The other day, an airline pilot dropped by after watching a show on the Food Channel that mentioned the saloon's classic grub menu. Other than the demise of that poor piano, the biggest change Samuel's seen from the... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Atkinson wants Oregon to build velodromesin Medford area, Portland Mar 7, 2007
Bike messengers in major cities, including Portland, prefer them because they are light and highly maneuverable. Atkinson sometimes used one during his campaign for governor. (Mail Tribune, OR)
CRITICAL CLASS Jan 1, 2007
There's no disputing, however, that Rainey's antics on "Real World'' made him the public face of bike messenger culture, introducing a generation of kids to a freewheeling lifestyle defined as much by Puck's obnoxiousness as his supposed feats of derring-do. "Puck was a real tool," says Morris. If Rainey made bike messengers look bad to a mainstream audience, courier bag designers are making them look good. Timbuk2 may be the trendiest bag maker among the noncourier public, but messengers say... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Desperately seeking Zune Dec 12, 2006
" With "Zunique" charged up and filled with everything from Juanes to Dixie Chicks to R.E.M. to Roxette, I headed from CNET's offices in downtown San Francisco up two blocks to Market Street, the main thoroughfare in the city. Along the way, I popped into a Starbucks to see if there were any Zunes amid the Venti Macchiatos, or whatever it is that they serve these days. I quickly checked my player. "Searching for Zune devices," it said, promisingly. I waited, hopeful. "No nearby Zune devices... (ZDNet)
Dodging traffic for a living Dec 9, 2006
Roach, 26, is one of a rare breed of bike messengers, also called bike couriers, dodging and weaving through the streets of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas ... If you haven't seen bike messengers before, you might have noticed them a couple of weekends ago when DOOM sponsored its first Alleycat race, bringing bike messengers from all over the state into downtown ... Bike messengers' daredevil and devil-may-care attitudes separate them from your average cyclist racing around White Rock Lake. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Bring your 'mongo' appetite for comfort food in a skillet Nov 13, 2006
Looking at our fellow diners -- almost exclusively adult with a notable number of bike messengers involved in serious carbo loading -- we selected major munch. No human could handle a mongo alone and live for long.. (Boston Globe)
Camcorder delivers to the Web Oct 23, 2006
The G-Tech Messenger Bag ain't no Timbuk2: I don't expect many bike messengers will give up their original canvas bags -- seasoned with all of that street grime and grit -- for something that is half bag, half gadget, and all nerd. But the Messenger Bag, with its padded shoulder strap and neat iPod pocket on the outside of the flap, is functional enough. (Boston Globe)
Veteran N.Y.C. Messenger Is Wheel Trouble Oct 5, 2006
He goes by the name Kamikaze, and after 25 years in the saddle, 15 stolen bikes, thousands of packages delivered and too many accidents and altercations to count, he's a legend among city bike messengers (and a well-known scourge to traffic cops and cab drivers). This weekend at the Coney Island Film Festival, the 50-year-old Flushing native will get a moment in the spotlight, with the screening of the documentary short "Messenger," by city filmmaker and photographer Gary Beeber. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
SAN FRANCISCOONE GEAR, WILL TRAVEL Sep 12, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO / ONE GEAR, WILL TRAVEL / Lacking brakes and shifters, 'fixies' keep cyclists intimate with their pedals. You push them, and they push you back," said Hawkins, 31, a freelance computer animator who lives in the Mission. Bearded and gregarious, he wore funky glasses and rolled-up jeans with dark red knee socks on a recent ride. "You have no options. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Cyclists fear recent deaths may be trend Aug 22, 2006
Yet in the past month alone, two bike messengers, Darren Lewis, 20, and Jonathan Neese, 34, were killed while riding. Ten-year-old Shamar Porter of Brooklyn was also run down and killed by a minivan this month while biking home from a little league game. (Newsday -- New York City)
Bike sculpture built for 300 Aug 13, 2006
The piles of greasy bike wheels, bent seats, chains and twisted spokes crunched together into a giant, square-shaped archway at the foot of York St. and Queens Quay look like the result of a freak collision involving hundreds of bike messengers. The bikers aren't there, though. (Toronto Star -- GTA)
HOFSTETTER:Why is paintball on ESPN2? Jun 13, 2006
But the same can be said for bike messengers, and I don't want to watch the national delivery championships. Let's start with the camera's inability to capture the game as it's played. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
BAG STORE BREW-HAHA Jun 5, 2006
" Bartering has been company policy since Crumpler was founded by three bike messengers in 1995. "We started bartering bags for bike parts or whatever we needed," says Cousley. "And if somebody wanted a bag, we would be like, 'Give us a case of beer and here you go. " And perhaps not coincidentally, beer has a long and illustrious history at Crumpler. Before he ever thought of designing, messenger Stu Crumpler was desperate. After a long day of schlepping packages around busy Melbourne streets,... (New York Post -- Style)
MURRAY CARPENTER: Bikes need better agents Jun 3, 2006
There was the Kevin Bacon movie "Quicksilver," but that was about bike messengers, a quirky subculture. And who could forget the romantic scene in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," with Paul Newman riding Katharine Ross on his handlebars to the tune of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." But I suspect that movie sold more horses than bikes by a long shot. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
CUSTOM CANVAS May 8, 2006
" No longer a small, exclusive, underground company, Timbuk2 bags are sold in more than 2,000 stores worldwide and can be spotted on almost any downtown city block, bus or Muni train, toted by business executives, busboys and mothers. It all began in 1989 when Rob Honeycutt, then a bike messenger, decided to stitch his own bag because he couldn't find one with a design he liked. He made some for friends, then friends of friends, and called his emerging business Scumbags -- but as their... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Avoiding the Bicycle Thief: Apr 19, 2006
(All warrantied OnGuard locks also lost one bonus point for value because bikes stolen in New York state, and bikes jacked with power tools, aren't covered by their warranty, nor are bikes swiped from bike messengers or deliverymen. . (Slate)
Runner No. 2 Apr 19, 2006
"Then again, some of the characters were less predictable. At a table near the cellphone growler sat a rotating crew of bike messengers, their motleys of Spandex and duct tape and leather and chrome as elaborate as any power suit. Down the block, a young Hispanic couple murmured to their infant daughter, who divided her attention between a piece of chocolate and her tiny foot. (The result: sock fondue.)I'd zigzagged through the Financial District to Quincy Market, but now, my stomach was zigging... (Boston Globe -- Local)
Isaac Mizrahi: One-Man Brand Mar 23, 2006
Before he made body-hugging dresses from stretchy textiles [in the 1980s], bike messengers didn't wear stretch pants. And then leggings happened, after Alaia's designs. (BusinessWeek)
City wants violators to sweat small stuff Feb 17, 2006
Bike messengers working without a license are looking at a $100 ticket. Linskey said some of the fines were set years ago and may not be high enough to deter violators; for example, suburbanites who bring their household trash to Boston so they won't have to pay for its disposal in their hometown face a $10 fine on the first offense. (Boston Globe)
San Francisco Bike Messengers Association 'Gears Up' in Official Jerseys to Advertise and Welcome the Amgen Tour of California Cycling Race Feb 14, 2006
Members of Bike Messengers Association Meet for Valentine's Day Photo-Op at. Justin Herman Plaza Photo Opportunity WHAT: As the Amgen Tour of California professional cycling race prepares to roll off in San Francisco on February 19, the resident cyclists of the town -- the San Francisco Bike Messengers Association -- will welcome the race by wearing the colorful official race jerseys and kicking off their morning routes at Justin Herman Plaza, the start line for the Amgen Tour of California ...... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Japan Becomes More and More Un-Japanese Feb 7, 2006
Turning Un-Japanese - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com. To someone who has lived for long periods of time in the West, there is nothing particularly challenging about Japan, not anymore. (Newsweek)
